Tribes and Safety Pins
There's a movement starting as a reaction to the EU referendum result - wearing a safety pin to show you're a safe person.
A safe person to talk to in the street, someone who won't accept divisive comments trying to falsely create "us and them".
All these things (xenophobia, islamophobia, homophobia etc) are by their nature irrational fears.
Fears need to be acknowledged (people can't just drop an irrationally felt fear, nor can you rationally argue against it of course), but they don't have to be accepted without working to change them.
Wearing a safety pin is a very small statement externally, but it says something about the internal processes.
I've pinned one to my backpack.
A safe person to talk to in the street, someone who won't accept divisive comments trying to falsely create "us and them".
All these things (xenophobia, islamophobia, homophobia etc) are by their nature irrational fears.
Fears need to be acknowledged (people can't just drop an irrationally felt fear, nor can you rationally argue against it of course), but they don't have to be accepted without working to change them.
Wearing a safety pin is a very small statement externally, but it says something about the internal processes.
I've pinned one to my backpack.
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